What's the best way to debug code that is being run during garbage
collection?
We are getting AccessViolation Exceptions that seem to be happening
during garbage collection. But when it hits the debugger, it is at whatever
line of code the main thread was at when the garbage collector decided to
run. In other words, the debugger is in irrelevant code.
In general, if you have bugs in Dispose or finalization methods, what's the
best way to debug such?
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Well, GC doesn't run Dispose(); only finalize.
And you shouldn't be touching any other objects except "this" in a
finalizer; the idea is to release unmanaged resources, such as Win32
handles that only exist as an int/IntPtr/etc.
You shouldn't touch any other object in a finalizer; it might not really
be there...
Marc
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Well, GC doesn't run Dispose(); only finalize.
And you shouldn't be touching any other objects except "this" in a
finalizer; the idea is to release unmanaged resources, such as Win32
handles that only exist as an int/IntPtr/etc.
You shouldn't touch any other object in a finalizer; it might not really
be there...
I understand. And actually, I try not to write finalizers at all anyway.
But we use .NET WinForms and embed Office in our app using DSO Framer.
So, we use code that Microsoft has written that has finalizers.
And, yes, it might not really be there. But I added a debug command that
just invokes System.GC.Colle ct. After doing certain things in our app, if
I invoke that command, then I get the AccessViolation Exception. Its
possible
that its a timing thing and it was just a really really "lucky" coincidence.
Any suggestions on how to get an idea of what object's finalizer is causing
that would be GREATLY appreciated.
Brian
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What's the best way to debug code that is being run during garbage
collection?
We are getting AccessViolation Exceptions that seem to be happening
during garbage collection. But when it hits the debugger, it is at
whatever
line of code the main thread was at when the garbage collector decided to
run. In other words, the debugger is in irrelevant code.
In general, if you have bugs in Dispose or finalization methods, what's
the
best way to debug such?
User threads are stopped when the GC kicks-in, it's only when the finalizer
thread runs (after a GC run) that user code can continue to run, this
because finalize methods do run on a separate (the finalizer) thread. The GC
itself will not throw an AV,only the finalize method can possibly throw an
AV exception, this is mostly due to a failure in native interop (COM or
PInvoke) code. The only way to debug such failures is by attaching the
program to a debugger when the failure occurs.
Willy.
"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" <st*****@online .microsoft.comw rote in message
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The windbg(debuggin g tools for windows) is a common
debugger for production environment debugging(crash , hang ,high cpu...).
Here is some reference introducing it:
Thanks for those links! They will prove useful, I'm sure.
We did find the problem... and since I suspect others have this problem... I
thought I'd document it here...
Many of the posts on the net about AccessViolation Exceptions have a stack
trace similar to some of ours... coming out of the ToolTip code, which
evidently uses some Unsafe code underneath (based on the naming of their
functions). Given we see the violation show up in a variety of places, we
did not give any significance to any of them. However, it seems that the
ToolTip stuff is the unsafe code that was causing the problem. We removed
it from the panel in question, and the AccessViolation Exception has
vanished.
Searching the net further for that pair shows a LOT of people with
AccessViolation s appearing in that ToolTip code, but seemingly nobody is
putting the blame on that ToolTip code. If anyone does a search on that and
gets this note, my recommendation: try removing the ToolTip code, might fix
the problem.
Hope that helps any others with this problem.
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"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" <st*****@online .microsoft.comw rote in message
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>The windbg(debuggin g tools for windows) is a common
debugger for production environment debugging(crash , hang ,high cpu...).
Here is some reference introducing it:
Thanks for those links! They will prove useful, I'm sure.
We did find the problem... and since I suspect others have this problem...
I thought I'd document it here...
Many of the posts on the net about AccessViolation Exceptions have a stack
trace similar to some of ours... coming out of the ToolTip code, which
evidently uses some Unsafe code underneath (based on the naming of their
functions). Given we see the violation show up in a variety of places, we
did not give any significance to any of them. However, it seems that the
ToolTip stuff is the unsafe code that was causing the problem. We removed
it from the panel in question, and the AccessViolation Exception has
vanished.
Searching the net further for that pair shows a LOT of people with
AccessViolation s appearing in that ToolTip code, but seemingly nobody is
putting the blame on that ToolTip code. If anyone does a search on that
and gets this note, my recommendation: try removing the ToolTip code,
might fix the problem.
Hope that helps any others with this problem.
This might help you forward, but it's not a fix.
Please post your code, this would be more helpful than simply asking other
to removing this from their application code.
Note that tooltip doesn't use "unsafe" code, it calls into unmanaged code,
but this shouldn't be an issue unless there is a bug in the tooltip managed
code or in the unmanaged code called from tooltip.
Willy.
"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi************ *@telenet.bewro te in message
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>
This might help you forward, but it's not a fix.
Please post your code, this would be more helpful than simply asking other
to removing this from their application code.
Note that tooltip doesn't use "unsafe" code, it calls into unmanaged code,
but this shouldn't be an issue unless there is a bug in the tooltip
managed code or in the unmanaged code called from tooltip.
Uhh, I understand. Yes, I am suggesting there is a bug in the ToolTip
code that results in AccessViolation Exceptions under certain conditions.
Its not my code... so I can't fix it... or debug it... or post it.
I have added a work item to our TFS to attempt to create an isolated
example that we can send to Microsoft. But not knowing the conditions
that exercise the bug in the ToolTip code, its a bit hard. Early attempts
have failed. And we have higher priorities at the moment.
However, if you do a search on "AccessViolatio nException ToolTip"
you will find numerous cases. If I remember right, some of those
posted code that may have it isolated. I would suggest examining those;
in fact, that may be easier than trying to isolate it out of our code.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your follow-up and sharing the result with us.
Yes, it may required much more to get the detailed root cause or fix it
since the problem may reside deep in the underlying code. Anyway, if you
have simple typical code that can repro it, I recommend you submit the
problem to our feedback site: http://connect.microsoft.com/feedbac...spx?SiteID=210
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:06:29 -0500
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"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi************ *@telenet.bewro te in message
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This might help you forward, but it's not a fix.
Please post your code, this would be more helpful than simply asking
other
>to removing this from their application code.
Note that tooltip doesn't use "unsafe" code, it calls into unmanaged
code,
>but this shouldn't be an issue unless there is a bug in the tooltip
managed code or in the unmanaged code called from tooltip.
Uhh, I understand. Yes, I am suggesting there is a bug in the ToolTip
code that results in AccessViolation Exceptions under certain conditions.
Its not my code... so I can't fix it... or debug it... or post it.
I have added a work item to our TFS to attempt to create an isolated
example that we can send to Microsoft. But not knowing the conditions
that exercise the bug in the ToolTip code, its a bit hard. Early attempts
have failed. And we have higher priorities at the moment.
However, if you do a search on "AccessViolatio nException ToolTip"
you will find numerous cases. If I remember right, some of those
posted code that may have it isolated. I would suggest examining those;
in fact, that may be easier than trying to isolate it out of our code.
Brian
"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" <st*****@online .microsoft.comw rote in message
news:5D******** *******@TK2MSFT NGHUB02.phx.gbl ...
>
Thanks for your follow-up and sharing the result with us.
Yes, it may required much more to get the detailed root cause or fix it
since the problem may reside deep in the underlying code. Anyway, if you
have simple typical code that can repro it, I recommend you submit the
problem to our feedback site:
http://connect.microsoft.com/feedbac...spx?SiteID=210
FWIW, we did manage to construct an isolated code project that
reproduces the issue. I looked at that "Connect" feedback site...
not sure where I'd submit something there... but I did submit it
to the support email address for certified partners. They should
get it to the right people.
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